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🦅 Alabaster bas-relief showing a vulture attacking a dead enemy soldier, who was killed by the Assyrian army. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Nimrud, modern-day Iraq.
📷 Photo ©️ by Osama S.M. Amin.
#NeoAssyrian #Mesopotamia #Iraq #History #AncientHistory #Nimrud
⚔️ On this day in 1097: First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
📝 Article by Mark Cartwright.
#Crusades #History #SiegeOfAntioch #OnThisDay #MilitaryHistory #Antioch
➡️ Read more about the Siege of Antioch (1097-98) here: worldhistory.org/article/125…
The ideal of Christendom in antiquity joined separate nations into one single community carrying out the precepts of the God of Israel. whe.to/ci/2-3011-en/ #history worldhistory.org/article/301…
🍽️ Banquet scene in a fresco from Herculaneum, Italy. Made c. 50 BCE, during the Late Roman Republic. Le Musée absolu, Phaidon. 59 (23 in) x 53 cm (20).
📷 Photo by Yann Forget.
#Fresco #Roman #Herculaneum #History #Banquet
🎧 Our friend Noah Tetzner from 'The History of Vikings' podcast has a new podcast out called 'The Vintage Passport', which focuses on the fascinating history and culture surrounding wine.
#Wine #History #HistoryOfWine #Podcast #HistoryPodcast #Educational
Listen to Noah's favourite episode: 'How France Conquered the Wine World (and the Man Executed for Bad Wine') here: player.captivate.fm/episode/…
💒 On this day in 1469: Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
#IsabellaIOfCastile #FerdinandIIOfAragon #Spain #Royalty #History #SpanishHistory #OnThisDay
➡️ Read more about Isabella I of Castile here: worldhistory.org/Isabella_I_…
⚔️ On this day in 202 BCE: Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
📝 Article by Joshua J. Mark.
🖼️ Painting by Cornelius Cort.
#Hannibal #Rome #Carthage #History #AncientHistory
➡️ Read more about the Battle of Zama here: worldhistory.org/article/292…
📝 '#Villain' didn't always have the insulting meaning it has today.
Find more real word etymologies at wordineer.com
The ideal of Christendom is a historical and political vision where society and government are unified under the Christian faith. whe.to/ci/2-2997-en/ #history worldhistory.org/article/299…
💤 German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841) named morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of sleep and dreams.
#History #HistoryTidbit #Mythology #GreekMythology #Morpheus #Morphine #HistoricalFacts #WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
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🖼️ Cartoon courtesy of Scott Hilburn.
#HistoryHumour
🗺️ The Black Death was the catastrophic first great wave of the Second Plague Pandemic, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Ancient DNA links its pandemic lineage to an outbreak near Lake Issyk-Kul in Central Asia in 1338–39.
🗺️ Map created by Simeon Netchev.
#History
➡️ Read more here: worldhistory.org/image/12038…
📝 Did you know that the word '#weird' had very different meaning in Old #English?
Learn more about real word #etymologies at wordineer.com
🍑 A detail of a wall fresco showing peaches and a water jug, Herculaneum. From the House of the Stags, c. 50 CE. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples). Photo by Carole Raddato.
